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The Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, George Washington Bridge, and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge were the world's longest suspension bridges when opened in 1883, [2] 1903, [3] 1931, [4] and 1964 [5] respectively. There are 789 bridges and tunnels in New York.
English: Location map of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area — which encompasses Los Angeles County and Orange County in Southern California. Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 120.0 %. Geographic limits of the map:
By 1890, due to the popularity of the Brooklyn Bridge, there were proposals to construct other bridges across the East River between Manhattan and Long Island. [205] Although a second deck for the Brooklyn Bridge was proposed, it was thought to be infeasible because doing so would overload the bridge's structural capacity. [ 200 ]
future California High-Speed Rail - Burbank to Los Angeles section: Dayton Avenue Bridge carrying Riverside Drive: 1939 (demolished 2015) Riverside Drive and Los Angeles River Greenway Trail: 2017: Elysian Viaduct I-5 (Golden State Freeway) 1962: Taylor Yard Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge: Los Angeles (Elysian Valley) 2021: SR 2 (Glendale Freeway)
Boundary map as drawn by the Los Angeles Times on a CC-by-SA background. Note at bottom right of map on the L.A. Times website noted above says "CC-by-SA" (which gives permission to use the map).
While the district attorneys of Manhattan and Brooklyn are popularly referred to as "Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr.", or "Brooklyn D.A. Kenneth P. Thompson" by the media, they are technically and legally the district attorneys of New York County and Kings County, respectively. The same goes for Staten Island.
Mapping L.A. is a project of the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within Los Angeles County, California. It identified 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with those of adjacent cities. [1]
The Brooklyn approach to the Manhattan Bridge also contained a terraced plaza with balustrades. [343] The Brooklyn plaza was originally bounded by Sands, Bridge, Nassau, and Jay streets. [10] French designed a pair of 20-short-ton (18-long-ton; 18 t) pylons named Brooklyn and Manhattan on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge. These were ...